New World Writing Quarterly

It came to him him that ten of his thir­ty face­book friends had breast can­cer and were run­ning run­ning races.
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Margaret Benjamin is the author of “Turtles and Magic,” a chap­book. She lives with her part­ner in Fresno, California, where –more

Ended up in SF head­ed back to BART after mid­night — girls in their teens and twen­ties in tight shiny dress­es, high heels, make­up, care­ful­ly coiffed and sexy a few hours before but now stum­bling, hair­dos com­ing apart, dress seams split­ting on the heav­ier –more

Nurse Normal

“Nurse nor­mal,” the swain says every time the baby cries. “Like the cows do.”

Nurse nor­mal with the naïve genius of the squat.

Nurse the mere­ly dumb who can nei­ther mum­ble nor squeak.

Nurse the bland and faint who –more

Scott Wright: Impact trau­ma is a term that we use to dif­fer­en­ti­ate dif­fer­ent things that might have caused the birds to appear the way they do when we con­duct the necrop­sy, which is an autop­sy of ani­mals. And what we look for are spe­cif­ic –more

Please check the new poet­ry fea­ture with Kara Candito. Poems present­ly, an inter­view and video to come.

We have been alert­ed that some folk who wished to com­ment on var­i­ous pieces in the new issue were unable to com­ment because com­ments are closed. This is site pol­i­cy–we have nev­er inten­tion­al­ly encour­aged piece-by-piece com­ments. We –more

My Father’s Hand In Mine

We are hap­py to pro­vide the first mag­a­zine pub­li­ca­tion, and first online pub­li­ca­tion, of the title sto­ry from Brad Watson’s first book, Last Days of the Dog-Men, pub­lished in 1996 and cur­rent­ly avail­able in paper­back from W.W. –more

Meg Pokrass was pleased to get a cou­ple of new poems from Dorianne Laux, so we added those to our BLIP WEEKLY page, which com­bines our This Week and Features pages into one con­stant­ly updat­ing selec­tion of new work. Click here to go to that page now.

Recently to be named one of Flavorwire’s “10 Online Lit Mags You Should Be Reading.” We are.  You should. Read all about us (and the oth­er 9) here.

Django Reinhardt New York City Festival — Dark Eyes

Live at Birdland on Nov. 10, 2005
Personnel: Dorado Schmitt, Angelo Debarre, Ludovic Beier, Pierre Blanchard, Brian Torff, Samson Schmitt, Gordon –more

We’re delight­ed to pub­lish a small selec­tion of poems by Bob Hicok, recip­i­ent of five Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim and two NEA Fellowships, whose poet­ry has been includ­ed in six vol­umes of Best American –more

Here are three tasty music units, one by Meredith Monk, one by the extra­or­di­nary Moondog, and a duet with Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) and Archie Schepp. We hope you enjoy.

For extra plea­sure play all three at once.

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